Open thread for night owls: Young climate activists going after McConnell on 'shameless' GND vote
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Jake Johnson at Common Dreams writes—Youth Climate Leaders Launch Campaign to Make McConnell Regret 'Shameless' Green New Deal Ploy: As new polling found that over 80 percent of the American public supports the key pillars of the Green New Deal resolutiOpen thread for night owls: Young climate activists going after McConnell on 'shameless' GND vote
Jake Johnson at Common Dreams writes—Youth Climate Leaders Launch Campaign to Make McConnell Regret 'Shameless' Green New Deal Ploy: As new polling found that over 80 percent of the American public supports the key pillars of the Green New Deal resolution, the youth-led Sunrise Movement on Thursday launched an action plan aimed at making Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) regret his «shameless» plan to rush a floor vote on the bold climate plan. [...] «This is a shameless political ploy by Mitch McConnell to try to slow our momentum. He and his fossil fuel billionaire donors have no plan to stop climate change. They are calling this vote because they know this resolution is a powerful organizing tool, and they want to take it away,» Sunrise co-founder Varshini Prakash wrote in an email to supporters. «For the past two days, our organizing team has been charting out an ambitious plan to use this vote to put the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, and pressure all senators to back the resolution.» Here is Sunrise's plan to pressure senators to back the Green New Deal, which will culminate in a nationwide day of action on Feb. 26: Kick off the #SenateSprint this week and next. We'll write Letters to the Editor and show up at Senate offices to urge them to co-sponsor the resolution. Mass action in D.C. on Feb 25th. Young people from Kentucky, McConnell's home state, are planning to confront Mitch McConnell in D.C.—we need to be there to back them. As we're flooding the Senate, we're asking hubs and allies to flood Senate offices with thousands of calls. Turn up the heat on Feb 26th. All across the country, we'll be storming into offices, singing, dropping banners, rallying outside, and making it clear that young people are ready to hold our politicians' feet to the fire if they don't co-sponsor the Green New Deal. «The fact that McConnell is trying to stop our organizing is a sign that he's scared,» Prakash concluded. «It is a testament to the power of our organizing. We can't back down now. In fact, it's time to ramp up. We are going to take this challenge from Mitch McConnell and use it as an opportunity to build even more support for the Green New Deal. We're not going to let him win.» Indivisible’s list of Resistance Events & Groups TOP COMMENTS • HIGH IMPACT STORIES • THE WEEK’S HIGH IMPACT STORIES QUOTATION “The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is done … The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fires in a theatre and causing a panic.” ~~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Schenck v. U.S. (March 3, 1919) TWEET OF THE DAY xThe year Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes. https://t.co/Wq1wdrzfO0— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 17, 2019 BLAST FROM THE PAST On this date at Daily Kos in 2005—“Controversial« Negroponte Nominated to Be First Director of National Intelligence: The current U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, has been nominated to become the first Director of National Intelligence […] Negroponte began his diplomatic career in 1960 and served in South Vietnam before becoming an aide to Henry Kissinger during negotiations in Paris with North Vietnam. From 1981 to 1985, he was U.S. ambassador to Honduras, where he helped carry out the Reagan administration's efforts, using the Contra rebels, to oust the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He also served as ambassador to Mexico and the Philippines. After leaving the diplomatic service in 1997, Negroponte worked as a senior executive with the McGraw-Hill publishing company. In 2001, Bush appointed him as ambassador to the United Nations, a post he held until he was named ambassador to Iraq last year. A 1960 graduate of Yale University, the London-born son of a Greek shipping magnate speaks five languages. Billmon provides »context«: »The DNI [National Directorate of Investigation] maintained a secret unit - the Honduran Anti-Communist Liberation Army (ELACH), a rightist paramilitary organization which conducted operations against Honduran leftists. According to DELETED, during the period ELACH operated (1980-1984), ELACH's operations included surveillance, kidnappings, interrogation under duress, and execution of prisoners who were Honduran revolutionaries.« Monday through Friday you can catch the Kagro in the Morning Show 9 AM ET by dropping in here, or you can download the Stitcher app (found in the app stores or at Stitcher.com), and find a live stream there, by searching for »Netroots Radio.” LINK TO DAILY KOS STORE Read more